Installing Designer Starting Designer Main Designer Window

5-2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Site Studio Designer

5.1 Installing Designer

See System Requirements on page 1-11 for specific information on the system requirements for installing and running Designer. To install the Site Studio Designer application, perform these tasks: 1. Contact your system administrator for instructions on where to obtain the client software installer for Site Studio Designer. If you have access to an Oracle Content Server 11gR1 instance, you can find the Site Studio Designer installation on the My Downloads page in the Oracle Content Server web interface under My Content. 2. After obtaining the client software, run the installer executable. The installation wizard is launched. 3. Follow the instructions on screen to install the Site Studio Designer software.

5.2 Starting Designer

To start Site Studio Designer, open the Start menu, select Programs, then Oracle Universal Content Management , then select Site Studio 11gR1, and then Site Studio Designer . The first time the Designer application is launched, it displays an empty site hierarchy and workspace, and it prompts you to create a Web site. Thereafter, Designer opens the last Web site you worked on. You can prevent Designer from automatically reconnecting to the last site on the Customize dialog Miscellaneous tab, which is called up by opening the Tools menu and then choosing Customize.

5.3 Main Designer Window

The Designer interface provides an environment where you can set up and manage all aspects of your site, including the site structure, page layout, navigation, and contribution. When you first open Designer, you see the site hierarchy and asset Note: You need administrative rights to the computer to install Site Studio Designer. If you want to install Site Studio Designer on a system running Windows Vista with User Account Control UAC turned off, make sure that you install the application as a user with administrator privileges. Note: If you install Site Studio Designer 11gR1 on a computer that already has an earlier Designer version on it, the Designer 11gR1 application installs alongside the earlier version. The previous version is not removed. Note: Site Studio 11gR1 is fully backward compatible. This means that you can use Site Studio Designer 11gR1 to work with sites created in earlier Site Studio releases. It is important to note, though, that these sites continue to work in legacy mode; that is, they use the pre-10gR4 architecture and they do not take advantage of the architecture and features introduced in Site Studio 10gR4. Getting Started With Designer 5-3 properties on the left, the workspace in the center, the site assets below that, and the toolbox on the right. Figure 5–1 Main Site Studio Designer Window The main Designer window consists of various elements: ■ The site hierarchy is used to organize the structure of the site. This includes the home page, the individual sections, and the page templates associated with each section. See Site Hierarchy on page 5-4 for more information. ■ The properties pane is used to view and edit a variety of settings for your site, including information about the site hierarchy, site assets, individual HTML and scripting tags, and so on. See Properties Pane on page 5-4 for more information. ■ The workspace is used to view and edit site assets such as page templates, region templates, and element definitions. See Workspace on page 5-6 for more information. ■ The site assets pane is used to organize files that belong to your site page templates, data files, CSS files, images, scripts, and so forth. You can use this pane to quickly and easily open, edit, and organize these files. See Site Assets Pane on page 5-13 for more information. ■ The toolbox pane is used to create, edit, and manage fragments on your site. See Toolbox on page 5-14 and Chapter 13, Working With Fragments for more information. ■ The toolbars provide easy access to many features in the Designer application. See Toolbars on page 5-21 for more information. 5-4 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Site Studio Designer The display and arrangement of these objects is a default. You can rearrange them and customize the interface if you like. See Chapter 6, Customizing Designer for more information.

5.4 Site Hierarchy